2022 FotoFocus Biennial Program Week
September 29, Thursday
Taft Museum of Art
4–7pm | Member Preview Opening & Reception for Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones |
Cincinnati Art Museum
5–8pm | Member Preview Opening & Reception for Natural World A conversation with the artists Jason Allen-Paisant, John Edmonds, and David Hartt, with Cincinnati Art Museum Curator of Photography Nathaniel M. Stein, will begin at 7pm. |
September 30, Friday
Michael Lowe Gallery
4–6pm | Opening for Tony Oursler: Crossing Neptune |
Contemporary Arts Center
5–7pm | Members Reception & Tours for On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith; Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s; Baseera Khan: Weight on History |
7–8pm | Film Screening and Conversation Introduction by Marcus Margerum, Contemporary Arts Center Interim Director & Chief Business Officer and Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator View a screening of Dara Friedman’s Dancer (2011, 25 mins), followed by a conversation between Friedman and artist/singer Lizzi Bougatsos. |
8pm–12am | Public Opening Reception & Performance for On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith; Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s; Baseera Khan: Weight on History, and Cameron Granger: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Heaven |
October 1, Saturday
Memorial Hall
9am–4:30pm | FotoFocus Daytime Symposium |
9am | Breakfast |
9:45am | Opening Remarks by Mary Ellen Goeke, FotoFocus Executive Director |
10am | Introduction by Kevin Moore: Photographs are the Monuments of Our Online Visual Culture Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator |
10:30am | Discussion of Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s Moderated by: Ariel Goldberg, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Writer and Curator, New York, NY, with panelists: JEB (Joan E. Biren), Photographer, Filmmaker, and Activist, Washington, D.C.; Lola Flash, Photographer, New York, NY; Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Co-coordinator, Lesbian Herstory Archives and Associate Dean, NYU Libraries, New York, NY; and Diana Solís, Photographer and Educator, Chicago, IL |
11:30am | Artist Talk by Ian Strange Ian Strange, Transdisciplinary Artist, Perth, Australia |
Noon | Lunch Break |
1pm | Artist Talk by Jason Allen-Paisant Jason Allen-Paisant, Associate Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
1:30pm | Discussion of On the Line: Documents of Risk and Faith Co-moderated by Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, and Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, with artists: Mitch Epstein, Photographer, Holyoke, MA, and Xaviera Simmons, Artist, New York, NY |
2:30pm | Conversation with Baseera Khan and Ylinka Barotto Ylinka Barotto, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Independent Curator, Houston, TX with Baseera Khan, Artist, New York, NY |
3:30pm | Keynote Lecture by Makeda Best, Devour the Land Makeda Best, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA |
Art Academy of Cincinnati
6–10pm | Opening Reception and Street Party for Ian Strange: Disturbed Home and Annex |
October 2, Sunday
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
1–5pm | FotoFocus Daytime Symposium |
12:45pm | Opening Remarks by Mary Ellen Goeke, FotoFocus Executive Director, and Woodrow “Woody” Keown, Jr., President & Chief Operating Officer at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center |
1pm | Reading by Deborah Willis on J.P. Ball Deborah Willis, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, New York, NY |
1:30pm | Artist Talk by Myra Greene Myra Greene, Artist and Photographer, Atlanta, GA |
2pm | Conversation with Tony Oursler and Kevin Moore Kevin Moore, FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator, with Tony Oursler, Artist, New York, NY |
3pm | Discussion of ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory Co-moderated by Cheryl Finley, FotoFocus Guest Curator, Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, and Deborah Willis, FotoFocus Guest Curator and Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, New York, NY, with artists: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Artist and Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Brooklyn, NY; Daesha Devón Harris, Artist and Photographer, Saratoga Springs, NY; and Wendel A. White, Distinguished Professor of Art & American Studies at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ |
4pm | Keynote Lecture by Jeff Orlowski-Yang Jeff Orlowski-Yang, Director, Producer, and Cinematographer, Boulder, CO |
5–6pm | Reception for ‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory |
October 4, Tuesday
Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
5:30–8pm | Open Reception & Panel Discussion for City Under Exposure Participating Venue Event Highlight |
Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery
7–8pm | Gallery Talk with Artist for Michael Coppage: American+ Participating Venue Event Highlight |
October 5, Wednesday
i.imagine at the Cincinnati Zoo
3–5pm | Opening Reception, Artist Talk, and Photo Walking Tour for Wildest Dream Participating Venue Event Highlight Discounted Admission for Passport Holders |
Wave Pool
7–8pm | Curator Talk for Photography And Tenderness |
October 6, Thursday
Taft Museum of Art
6:30–8pm | Curator Talk for Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones |
The Garfield Theatre
7–10pm | Film Screening of Landfall & Conversation for Jurakán: A Film Series Participating Venue Event Highlight |
October 7, Friday
Xavier University Art Gallery at A.B. Cohen Center
6:30–8:30pm | Opening Reception for Searching of Life: Re-growth & Display Participating Venue Event Highlight |
Flag Studio
6–7pm | Reception & Gallery Talk for Collecting and Receiving Participating Venue Event Highlight |
October 8, Saturday
Kennedy Heights Art Center
Noon–2pm | What’s Left Behind Curator & Artist Talk Participating Venue Event Highlight |
The Carnegie
3:30–5pm | Panel Talk for These Things Are Connected Moderated by author Sergio Aguillón-Mata, featuring curators: Matt Distel, Esther Callahan, Daniel Fuller, Cameron Granger, and Tif Sigfrids for These Things Are Connected at The Carnegie. |
5-7pm | Reception for These Things Are Connected |
CampSITE Sculpture Park
7–9pm | Reception and Talk for Liz Roberts: Post Blonde Introduction by Dennis Harrington, Weston Art Gallery Director |
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